CLAUDE MONET

Claude Monet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLAUDE MONET, was born on 4th  November 1840 in  Paris, France. And he died on 5th December 1926,when he was 86 years old, in Giverny, France.

Claude Monet is a french and impresionist painter. He painted a collection called water lilies. 250 paintings currently on display at the Musée de l'Orangerie des Tuileries in Paris, France. These immense panels show a lake with water. They are depictions of the Giverny Garden, where Monet settled with his family and built his house in 1890. Monet installed there a bridge with exotic plants that was to be the model for his famous water lilies. Therefore his paintings were as  the Giverny Gardens.

Monet painted them to be suspended (within a circular room) so that they create the effect of the passing of a day or of the four seasons unfolding before the viewer's eyes.

In the Musée de l'Orangerie they are suspended in two oval rooms and total eight pieces. The motifs were provided by the water lilies in the bridge in his garden at Giverny. Indeed, in 1890 Monet had bought a house there. In his garden he built a Japanese bridge over a pond filled with water lilies, known as the "water garden". From then until the end of his life he painted these aquatic plants again and again.

 

           WATER LILIES